ADVANCED COMMITTEE
The Historical Security Council runs by the same rules and structures as the Security Council, albeit one significant difference. It is moved to the past. In the Historical Security Council, delegates relive, influence, and potentially alter the outcome of key historical events. Therefore, delegates represent countries that existed tens of years ago. This way they can delve deeply into their interesting histories.
TOPIC 1: The Wars of the Roses (1469)
It is the early 15th century, a medieval period characterized by crisis, famines, plagues and the start of “little ice age”. In such conditions, brutal conflicts were not uncommon. The War of the Roses is a tumultuous and bloody struggle for control of the English throne between the two rival branches of the Plantagenet dynasty: the House of Lancaster and the House of York. The war’s origins lay in the unstable politics following the weakness of Lancastrian King Henry VI and the Hundred Years’ War with France. Will the opposing sides come to find a consensus to prevent thousands of casualties in this year’s Historical Council?
COUNTRY MATRIX:
Advanced: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, French Republic, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, The Commonwealth of Australia, The Kingdom of Thailand, The Republic of Cuba, The Republic of India, The Republic of Korea, The Republic of Philippines, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Expert: North Vietnam, People’s Republic of China, South Vietnam, Soviet Union, United States of America
COUNTRY MATRIX:
Advanced: Edmund Beaufort; Duke of Somerset, Edward of Westminster; Prince of Wales, Henry Tudor, Jasper Tudor, John de Vere; Earl of Oxford, John Howard; 1st Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Bourchier; Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Grey; 1st Marquess of Dorset, Thomas Stanley; Earl of Derby, William Stanley; Baron Stanley
Expert: George Plantagenet; Duke of Clarence, Edward IV; Duke of York, Queen Margaret of Anjou, Richard Neville; Earl of Warwick, Richard; Duke of Gloucester